31 JANUARY 1969, page 27

Fashion And Fetishism

Sir: I am at present working on a serious historical study of fashion and its relationship to fetishism for Nelson's Natural History of Society series. In particular, I am......

No. 538: Asidelines

COMPETITION Set by Joyce Johnson: In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, the characters Rosen- crantz and Guildenstern are shown conversing between themselves during the......

The Slow Burn

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS Reactions in Moscow to the suicide last week of Jan Palach, writes our Soviet Commonwealth Correspondent Krawlin Legum, have ranged from outright......

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Sir: It has been suggested that a society should be formed to further the understanding and appreciation of the life and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins. May I through your......

No. 536: The Winners

Trevor Grove reports: The National Society of Non-Smokers recently asked the mic to show characters in plays refusing cigarettes. Com- petitors were invited to help the BBC by......